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GREENSBORO,
N.C. –
A record 2,903 student-athletes, including 290 Tar Heels, have been named to
the 56th annual Atlantic Coast Conference Academic Honor Roll, recognizing
academic excellence by student-athletes during the 2011-12 academic year. ACC
Commissioner John Swofford announced the list on Wednesday.

Carolina's total of 290 is the school's highest since 2004-05, when
294 student-athletes were named to the list. Forty-three more UNC student-athletes
made the list in 2011-12 than in the previous academic year.

The
ACC Academic Honor Roll is comprised of student-athletes who participated in a
varsity-level sport and registered a grade point average of 3.00 or better for
the full academic year.

UNC
ranked fourth this year among the 12 conference schools in number of honorees,
just one student-athlete behind third-place Virginia (291). Duke was first with
452 and Boston College had 369. After Carolina, the rest of the list was Maryland (259), Virginia
Tech (225), NC State (209), Clemson (194), Florida State (192), Georgia Tech
(149), Wake Forest (140) and Miami (133).

UNC
gymnastics senior Krista Jasper was one of 26 student-athletes named to the
list for the fifth time in their careers.

Three
other Tar Heels were among the 19 student-athletes to earn ACC Academic Honor
Roll recognition as well as ACC Player of the Year honors. Those three are
Stephanie Peacock (women's swimming),
Lori Spignola (softball) and Tyler Zeller (men's basketball).

Tar Heels on the 2011-12 ACC Academic Honor Roll, with number of times named to the list: